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- The Next Step Forward in Storage Virtualization: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) Come Together
- IBM has taken the next step in storage virtualization by merging the best in file system performance, scalability and flexibility. IBM has integrated key features of IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) into IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS). The goal of this paper is to introduce GPFS, at a...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- CINECA Powers Up High-Performance Virtualized Storage With IBM
- CINECA is the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) centre in Italy, and one of the most important worldwide. The center wanted to provide high-performance storage services to academic and commercial users; support large data volumes and multiple file systems; keep management costs low and flexibility high; and accelerate the flow of...
- Tags: High-performance, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., CINECA, Storage, Leadership, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2006-10-18
- Derive Substantial Business Benefits From IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center provides a single management platform from which an organization can manage storage infrastructure for performance, availability and capacity. The business value of this platform includes its ability to: Enable end-to-end disk management with a single tool Centralize management of storage Help...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Benefit, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
- IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 (iSCSI) and DS400 (Fibre) storage subsystems as SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created to...
- Tags: Storage Management, IBM Director, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., SMI-S, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-26
- IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server Using 3592 in a VTS Version 5
- The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server (VTS) revolutionized the way zSeries customers utilize their tape resources. As the capability of the underlying tape technology progressed from 3590 Model B1A tape drives and High Performance Cartridge Tape, through the E1A and H1A model drives and Extended High Performance Cartridge Tape,...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Performance Testing of the IBM TotalStorage DS8300 in a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Environment
- Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server relies heavily on the capabilities of its underlying disk subsystem to ensure acceptable performance. The purpose of this paper is to detail the steps that were taken to ensure the successful implementation of a large Microsoft Exchange 2003 configuration using IBM TotalStorage DS8300 storage subsystems. This...
- Tags: Performance, Environment, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-29
- SAP liveCache 7.5 and MaxDB 7.5 on IBM TotalStorage DS 8000 / ESS / SVC
- In an SAP SCM environment, liveCache is becoming an increasingly mission critical component. liveCache, like any other database technology, can be provided with a fail-over solution using traditional cluster implementations. An HACMP fail-over solution for liveCache has been available on AIX, and endorsed by SAP, for several years (starting with...
- Tags: SAP AG, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., liveCache, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-04-11
- IBM TotalStorage Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server Failover Test Scenarios in a zOS Environment
- The IBM TotalStorage Peer-to-Peer (PtP) Virtual Tape Server is designed so that no single component failure will result in loss of access to data. In addition, data access is also preserved during many multiple component failure situations. The complexity of the PtP VTS configuration, coupled with the large number of...
- Tags: P2P, Server, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Storage Management, Utility Computing, Internet, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-29
- IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server Delete Expired Volume Data Function and Peer to Peer "No Copy" Mode Description and Usage, V1.2
- With the General Availability of VTS (Virtual Tape Server) Release 7.2 (2.30.720.x), the Peer-to-Peer (PtP) Selective PtP Copy Function was introduced. The ability to choose the copy mode by virtual tape mount requires the Advanced Function Feature Code(s) (4001, etc.) be installed and enabled on the PtP VTS. The choices...
- Tags: P2P, Server, Copy, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet
- White papers 2006-03-27
- IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server Business Continuance Controls, V1.0
- For customers who have installed or are considering the installation of a Peer to Peer (PtP) Virtual Tape Server (VTS) subsystem for business continuance, the standard management algorithms of the subsystem may not meet all of their business recovery needs. To better meet those needs, the following aspects of the...
- Tags: Server, Subsystem, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Engineering, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-24
- SAP R/3 Enterprise - Sales and Distribution Using IBM eServer X366 and IBM TotalStorage DS4500 Storage Server
- mySAP Business Suite is a broad family of solutions designed to provide excellent functionality, integration, scalability, and easy collaboration across business networks. mySAP ERP gives you an entry point into mySAP Business Suite - with a cost-effective solution for improving efficiency and reducing costs. The purpose of this paper is...
- Tags: mySAP, mySAP Business Suite, IBM eServer, SAP R/3, SAP AG, Sales, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Server, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Utility Computing, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-11-22
- Joining IBM TotalStorage N Series Systems to Microsoft Active Directory
- This paper describes basic methods to join an IBM TotalStorage N series system with Data ONTAP to a Microsoft Active Directory domain. In order for you to be able to locate resources on a network, a mechanism must exist where the resources can be easily found. A directory service, in...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-10-28
- IBM TotalStorage SAN File System as an Infrastructure for Multimedia Servers
- Storage area networks (SANs) provides an ideal infrastructure to build a multimedia serving environment, but requires additional support layers to effectively exploit the SAN with multiple applications in heterogeneous environments. One such layer is the file system. IBM TotalStorage SAN File System simplifies file and data management in SANs by...
- Tags: Multimedia, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., IBM TotalStorage SAN File System, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-27
- IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Considerations for SAS 9 on the IBM eServer p590: Results and Findings of Disk Layout Testing
- This paper presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays (formerly known as FAStT). IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment...
- Tags: Disk, IBM eServer, SAS Institute, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-22
- IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server Using 3592 in a VTS - Version 3
- This white paper describes the additional configurations and control functions the VTS and PTP VTS solutions provide for the integration of the 3592 drive and media. It also contains suggestions on the use of the Advanced Policy Management functions to manage the usage and migration aspects of a VTS with...
- Tags: Server, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Realizing a High Volume Supply Chain Management System: SAP SCM 4.1 and IBM eServer With IBM TotalStorage - Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry
- The performance project presented in this paper is a Supply Chain Management implementation based on the current and projected requirements of an automotive industry component supplier. The volume of data to be processed surpasses that of any SAP implementation of SAP SCM currently in production. These requirements, resulting from the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Industry, IBM eServer, Parallel Processing, SAP AG, Manufacturing, SCM, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Using IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server FlashCopy Function With the VMware ESX 2.5 Server
- The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) is targeted at both mainframe and open system environments and is designed to provide improved reliability, ease of management and exceptional performance. Virtual infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling business to reduce their IT costs through increased...
- Tags: Data Backup, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Infrastructure, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- IBM TotalStorage PPRC Migration Manager and FlashCopy Manager Overview
- FlashCopy Manager and PPRC Migration Manager are IBM Storage Services solutions for z/OS users of ESS / DS6000 / DS8000 FlashCopy and Metro Mirror. For this environment, these packaged solutions are designed to - simplify and automate the z/OS jobs that setup and execute a z/OS FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, or...
- Tags: IBM z/OS, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-08
- IBM TotalStorage: Small and Medium Business Considerations for Business Continuity
- This paper provides a Business Continuity solution overview specific to the small and medium sized business (SMB) environment. SMBs are often quite large in the regional or local geography, and certainly SMB enterprises are not small at all in terms of dynamic ideas, innovation, agility, and growth. In many ways,...
- Tags: Business Continuity, IBM TotalStorage, Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Smb/Sme
- White papers 2005-08-08
- IBM TotalStorage: Planning for Heterogeneous IT Business Continuity
- Today's business world involves acquisitions, mergers, and a very fast pace of change in an eBusiness on demand world. As customer environments continue to proliferate, a major future trend in customer Business Continuity requirements is heterogeneous platform Business Continuity. This paper examines the concepts of effectively planning datacenter IT Business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Continuity, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Data Centers, It Services, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-08-08
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